Who contributed to Arch Linux on July 24, 2026?

4 developers shipped this update, including Antonio Rojas, Felix Yan, renovate, and codefiles.

What were the notable Arch Linux updates?

update keychain to 3.0.0-2 in extra-testing-any, update keychain to 3.0.0-1 in extra-testing-any, and update deno to 2.9.4-1 in extra-x86_64.

Jul 24, 2026

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KEYCHAIN 3.0 LANDS IN TESTING, ARCHINSTALL TIGHTENS VALIDATION

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on July 24, 2026 · About Arch Linux · Composed from the cited sources · methodology

4 people shipped this

codefiles @codefiles 3 cited

Antonio Rojas @antonio-rojas 2 cited

Felix Yan @felixonmars 2 cited

renovate @renovate 2 cited

Arch's package repos are moving fast: keychain climbs to 3.0.0, Deno reaches 2.9.4, and archinstall ships critical validator fixes across Pydantic models.

The state repo absorbed 55 commits in 24 hours, pushing keychain to 3.0.0-2 in extra-testing-any [1] on the heels of an earlier 3.0.0-1 release [2], signaling a major version bump is nearly ready for stable. Deno jumped to 2.9.4-1 [3] in extra-x86_64 while deepin-tray-loader ticked to 2.0.37-1 [4] and vim landed at 9.2.0843-1 [5]. On the archinstall desk, the focus shifted to correctness: three separate validator refactors landed to align type annotations with documentation and improve handling of unexpected values [7] [10], while a critical change made fetch_data_from_url() return bytes instead of strings to work properly with Pydantic's model_validate_json [8]. Ruff linting got bumped twice across the toolchain, moving to v0.16.0 in both the pre-commit hook [6] and as a direct dependency [9], bringing stricter code analysis to the installer pipeline.

Action items

→ Monitor keychain 3.0.0-2 in testing; prepare for stable migration archlinux/state [monitor]
→ Review archinstall PRs 4657, 4661, and 4653 before next release to ensure validator changes don't break imports archlinux/archinstall [plan]
→ Verify Deno and vim updates work in your workflow archlinux/state [monitor]

References

[1] update keychain to 3.0.0-2 in extra-testing-any archlinux/state ↗
[2] update keychain to 3.0.0-1 in extra-testing-any archlinux/state ↗
[3] update deno to 2.9.4-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
[4] update deepin-tray-loader to 2.0.37-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
[5] update vim to 9.2.0843-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
[6] Update pre-commit hook astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit to v0.16.0 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
[7] Refactor MirrorStatusEntryV3 field validator ↗ archlinux/archinstall
[8] Return bytes from fetch_data_from_url() ↗ archlinux/archinstall
[9] Update dependency ruff to v0.16.0 ↗ archlinux/archinstall
[10] Refactor MirrorStatusListV3 model validator ↗ archlinux/archinstall